Robert Lanfear
Research Topics
Over the course of a PhD at the university of Sussex (UK), I worked variously on rates of molecular evolution, developing tests to compare different hypotheses about the evolution of the Hox cluster, and on the evolution of segmentation in the animal kingdom. This was followed by a short post-doc with Max Telford at University College London, during which I worked on using Parhyale hawaiensis to investigate the evolution of the Wingless pathway in arthropods.
I am currently a postdoc in Lindell Bromham’s lab at ANU, working on phylogenetic approaches to studying speciation, invasion and extinction.
Publications
Pueyo J I*, Lanfear R*, Couso J P (2008) Ancestral Notch-mediated Segmentation Revealed in the Cocroach P. americana. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105(43): 16614-16619. (* equal first authors) pdf Appendix commentary
Lanfear R, Bromham L (2008) Statistical Tests Between Competing Hypotheses of Hox Cluster Evolution. Systematic Biology 57(5):1-11 pdf Appendices Python script
Lanfear R, Thomas JA, Welch JJ, Bromham L (2007) Metabolic rate does not calibrate the molecular clock. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104(39): 15388-15393. pdf F1000 Data